Sylvia Kristel Quotes

• The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

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  Serenity, Trying, Innocence

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• No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.

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  Taken, Heart, Hands

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• I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.

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  Live Life, Proud, Rooms

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• I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

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  Eye, Looks, Talent

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• Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

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  Self Confidence, Self, Fragile

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.

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  Age, God Love, Goddess

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• Men still assume I must be like the girl I played in 'Emmanuelle.' John Wayne was never accused of killing people during his free time, but I'm forever stuck with the image of 'Emmanuelle.' The truth is, I should have got an Oscar for that role because I'm nothing like that woman.

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  Girl, Men, Should Have

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• I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

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  Needs, Avoiding

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!

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  Order, Other Worlds, Leaving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.

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  Passion, Imagine, Glad

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• I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised.

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  Sex, Bombs, Actors

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• My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.

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  Mother, Responsibility, Mind

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• I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.

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  Pain, Thinking, Afterlife

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don't think a character like that could exist now.

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  Character, Thinking, People

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• Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

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  Office, Important, Boxes

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• I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

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  Love, Age, Acting

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• As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

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  Editors, Directors, Actors

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• Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!

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  Jealousy, Thinking, Too Good To Be True

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• I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.

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  Children, Divorce, Years

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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